— many have felt divided when it comes to speaking out, but Trevor Noah, host of the Daily Show, has some advice.

“The hardest part of having a conversation surrounding police shootings in America: it always feels like, in America, it’s like if you take a stand for something, you automatically are against something else,” he said. “But with police shootings, it shouldn’t have to work that way. For instance, if you’re pro-Black Lives Matter, you’re assumed to be anti-police, and if you’re pro-police, then you surely hate black people. It seems that it’s either pro-cop and anti-black or pro-black and anti-cop, when, in reality, you can be pro-cop and pro-black, which is what we all should be. That is what we should be aiming for.”

Commenting on America’s failure to acknowledge the issue, Noah referenced several recent police-related deaths caught on camera and asked, “Why is the video never enough?”

“And yet still, skepticism,” he continued. “And it’s only about this. When it comes to Bigfoot, people see one blurry video and people dedicate their lives to finding him.”

“I shouldn’t be afraid to say it: America has a problem within its police force,” he said. “And although it’s a problem that disproportionately affects black people, it’s not just a black problem. This is an American problem. Because just today, there was a third video, this time of a white kid getting shot by police while he was lying down on the ground. This is an American problem. Everyone is involved… You can’t fix something until you admit that it’s broken.”

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